Why are there so many questions without any votes here? [closed]
I've noticed that very few of the questions and comments here have any votes (up or down). Why is that?
Is it because, like me most people here aren't allowed to vote?
Now, I'm no super-star, but as I'm a member of about a dozen other ask sites, e.g. StackOverflow, unix, server, etc, and who has a modest worth at most of these other sites, I'm perplexed by this one's lack of votes.
Here, so far, I can't seem to get more than 1 point, just for existing.
I couldn't post a screen shot today because that requires 3 points. I couldn't vote on any of the questions or comments. I've even provided a number of answers, but just what does it take to get started with a few points here?
Thanks.
I also just did a bit of investigation. There are 3216 users here with 5 or more points. 29190 users total. Because you need at least 5 points to up-vote, to say that a question was helpful to you, only 11% of users here can give any sort of positive feedback. Now, I'm sure that there are more than 11% here who have something useful to offer. So I think it's time to ease up the restrictions on up-voting and allow a little more positive feedback.
Also only 5 of the 29190 users have more than 10k points.
And only 26 more have between 1000, and 9999.
So this site is very top heavy I think.
How about share the love a little more.
my 2c.
(I don't know an answer.)
Each user can accept correct answers to their own questions, I think. Few do. Wouldn't it earn them "karma"?
Do you know really good askbot sites? Wold you mind to link in some examples here? Isn't the software itself not actually suited for this purpose?
I do not suffer from lacking "karma". Nonetheless I cannot do anything here concerning the setup.
No decider ever discussed the issue here. Those devoted to "meritocracy" seem to be more equal, obviously.
forum.openoffice.org/en is structured much better. It also accepts LibO topics. You may discuss setup topics there. Administrators an moderators will read.
There was a true forum on LibreOffice which recently died: libreofficeforum.org, RIP. Why?
From my judgemet the efforts by @charlie.it (Thanks!) to at least preserve the content were not supported unflinchingly by those in charge at the doument foundation.
May it be a matter of power?
Humans are tempted now and then.
Among the relevant advantages of "askbot" and the setup here a weighty one may be the fact that this question - as any question - cannot turn into a discussion. It will simply vanish from the front page as my recent question "Why is this site not structured better?" did.
A suggestion how to enforce the suppression of discussions: The setup should also disallow more than two comments by the same user under one topic.
There is a https://www.libreoffice-forum.de/ ...